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Monday, September 23, 2013

A Sweet Thank You!

Hi!
Chrissie here and today I wanted to just walk you through my process as I made a thank you card.

I created this card for my daughter's sitter and the reasoning behind the thank you is bittersweet (hence the ice cream image for the 'sweet' part. See what I did there?!?! LOL!). She has been our daycare provider since my daughter was about 10 months old. My little kiddo just turned four and started Preschool. So, as happy as I am that she is in school, I am so incredibly sad to be leaving this amazing woman that has cared for my child as her own while I was at work everyday.

I pulled out my supplies and kind of played around with the stamped images inside the die cuts. Sometimes when I don't know where to start, I start laying out stamps and dies to see what works. That gives me a good starting off point.

The next thing I did was gather some scraps and I cut them all the same width. I have scraps everywhere. And I mean EVERYWHERE. They are in drawers, little boxes, on my desk, etc. So, I love it when I can get rid of some of them use them.

I decided to turn the scraps into banners by using my square punch. I just use the corner of the square punch and voila: banners!

I left them different lengths. Who needs uniformity, right??? :)

I added a little spray mist to the base of the card....

Then I colored in the little ice cream cone and background using Spectrum Noir Markers. And at the last minute, I re-cut the scallop in black card stock instead of a patterned paper. Since I wanted to stamp the sentiment in black in, I figured that would pull the card together better and I wanted the image to pop a little bit, too!